gov using phone records of newspapers, to root out confidential sources Options

[Seeker]

the gov is spying on newspaper reporters, do we really need anymore proof that we're heading for a police state? welcome to amerika.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/0...al_source_.html

[pebkac]

not even that...


reporters putting up maps during the iraq war and showing troop movements


i don't know how fucking stupid you have to be to think that constitutes public knowledge....unless those reporters are really trying to fuck people over


and reporting about CIA prisons in other countries....i mean for fucks sake people...not all of that stuff is bad


YES...some secrets we need to know about....others not so much

Personally, I think there needs to be some kind of check on the president for classifying these things. I mean, how many things has Bush classified simply because he didn't want the public to know about it? And it's not just him, virtually every past president has abused their ability to classify things at will (so I don't want to hear any arguments beginning with "If Clinton was president...")

Still... for investigating serious leaks of classified information, the government should be able to get warrants to seize relevant phone records... they don't need this giant database crap.

What she said.